Databases

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OpenCongress collects every publicly-available piece of legislation (i.e., every bill), vote, committee report and official government data and combines it with news and blog coverage, social networking, and participation tools to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress. With OpenCongress you can research and track a bill, a Member of Congress, or an issue area. OpenCongress is a project of the Participatory Politics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that builds free & open-source software for civic engagement. The Sunlight Foundation, also a non-profit organization, is the founding and primary supporter of OpenCongress.

Opening Night! is a cross-index of data for over 38,000 opera and oratorio premieres. It allows complex searches across multiple categories or simple browsing within any single category, such as genre, composer, librettist, premiere date, country, oratorio subject, or theater. The original index, compiled by Richard Parillo, include works that received a public performance between 1589 and 1995. More contemporary premieres and other updates are added as information becomes available. The database is linked to SearchWorks, allowing users to easily find related scores, recordings, and writings.

OpenJustice is an initiative that leverages statistical data maintained by the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) and other publicly available datasets contributed by local public law enforcement agencies in the state. Data are available via a Justice Dashboard or a Data Portal. The Dashboard spotlights key criminal justice indicators with in-depth analysis, integration of other publicly available datasets, and user-friendly interactive visualization tools. An Open Data Portal publishes data from CA DOJ's statewide repository of criminal justice datasets in an open-source and downloadable form. Open Justice also seeks to improve criminal justice reporting in California.

A database of citations to declassified information and to historical records in the National Archives and Records Administration and the Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters' History Division regarding information from the Atomic Energy Commission that predates the Manhattan Project. Also provides the full text of documents announced to the public by the Secretary of Energy, historical weapons films videoclips, and other DOE openness initiative information resources. Updated regularly.

"The most comprehensive, nonpartisan, resource for campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere. And for other organizations and news media, CRP's exclusive data powers their online features tracking money in politics -- counting cash to make change. [We are] a clearinghouse for data and analysis on multiple aspects of money in politics -- the independent interest groups called 527s committees, federal lobbying, Washington's 'revolving door', privately sponsored congressional travel and the personal finances of members of Congress, the president and other officials. The unparalleled data we produce helps power the online features and research of activist groups and news organizations, extending the reach of our research. We also collaborate with other transparency advocates to encourage government to provide more information to citizens in electronic formats that allow for easier review and understanding."--About us [Mar. 3, 2010]
"The Center for Responsive Politics describes itself as 'a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.' Opensecrets.org, the Center's Web site, provides information from the Federal Election Commission about campaign contributions to Congress, to the political parties and the presidential campaigns. The site may be navigated by tabs at the top of the web page, by search engines within the site, or by links to current issues. Everything is documented with citations and methodology. The mission statement, contact information, and funding sources are clearly noted. Opensecrets.org is a goldmine of data on contributions in politics, helpful both for students writing papers and for avid followers of politics"--"Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002," RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2002; reviewed Feb. 19, 2002.

Open States is a project of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to making government transparent, open and accountable through the Internet. Open States is a collection of tools that allows users to track what is happening in their state's capitol by aggregating information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Users can browse by state to see an overview of legislators, committees, bills and sessions. Legislator pages include bills sponsored, voting record, and media clips. A noteworthy feature is the link to Sunlight's Influence Explorer, which collects campiagn finance records. Data is organized by year, in-state/out-of-state donations, individuals/PACS, and top industries/contributers.

"Oral history online is a landmark index to English language oral histories. Working with archives, repositories and individuals we've indexed oral histories that are publicly available on the Web and that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Our intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals"--Introduction.

Presents a database of approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations, provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Allows users to search via active ingredient, proprietary name, application number, or applicant holder. The site also includes a downloadable PDF reproduction of the print publication.

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World" reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It broadly reflects conditions around 200 CE but also covers a few sites and roads created in late antiquity

"Organic materials database (OMDB) is created and maintained by the research group at Nordita (Stockholm, Sweden) as a part of the research on Dirac materials. OMDB focus is on electronic structure, density of states and other properties for purely organic and organometallic compounds that are known to date. The electronic band structures are calculated using density functional theory for the 6686 crystal structures contained in the Crystallography Open Database. This database is a tool to be used in guided materials search and discovery. OMDB web interface allows for identifying materials with certain target band structure properties specified by the user."

Online resource for synthetic organic chemists which provides information about the most important and useful synthetic reactions, organized primarily by reaction type. Each major component contains a critical discussion of the featured type of reaction as well as a step-by-step guide to performing it. The online version of Organic Reactions has been a regularly updated online database since 2003 and is available as either an electronic major reference work (eMRW), or a fully-featured database product with a set of advanced tools for structure/sub-structure and reaction searching.

"Organic Reactions is a comprehensive collection of important synthetic reactions, together with a critical discussion of the reaction and tables that organize all published examples of the topic reactions. Chapters that focus on reactions of current interest are solicited by the board of editors from leading chemists worldwide. The publication process entails a comprehensive peer-review process, ensuring the high quality and attention to detail for which this series is noted. Organic Reactions currently consists of over 140,000 reactions, and will continue to grow annually. Organic Reactionsis the definitive resource for synthetic transformations, with an emphasis on preparative aspects. Comprehensive coverage of all examples of a given reaction is provided in tabular form. In addition to providing reaction scope, stereochemical aspects, and side reactions, a selection of representative experimental conditions are given. All chapters represent the highest standard for accuracy and reliability from internationally acclaimed authors and editors."--Publisher's website.

"Organic Syntheses describes checked and edited experimental procedures, spanning a broad range of synthetic methodologies, and provides chemists with a compendium of new or little known experimental procedures which lead to useful compounds or that illustrate important new developments in methodology. For every procedure, safety warnings are presented along with detailed descriptions for the preparation, purification, and identification of the compound in question. Additionally, special reaction conditions are detailed, along with the source of reagents, helpful waste disposal guidelines, discussions of results, references to the primary literature, and an appendix of nomenclature and registry numbers."--Publisher's website.

Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present includes biographical and writing career entries on British women writers, selected non-British or international women writers, and selected British and international men. Also includes dated items representing events and processes (in the accounts of these writers, but also in the areas of history, science, medicine, economics, the law, and other contexts).